Rump? Not hardly. In 2000 corporate contributions to the GOP and Bush exceeded the amount to Dems by 2 to 1. That rate continued, at least through 2003.
As for the $200 million being a modest sum-- it exceeds by 25%, if memory serves me, the previous record for funds raised, the previous record belonging also to the current record holder, George W. Bush. That's a mighty big rump. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 5:50 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Thomas Frank op-ed piece > At 8:05 PM -0700 7/18/04, sartesian wrote: > >Dumped George Bush? Not hardly. Put 200 million into his campaign and he > >hasn't, and they haven't, started yet. Kerry? That's call hedging the > >position. You don't dump somebody by place a 200 million dollar bet. > >Dump Bush Oh no, they love this love-child of Ronald Reagan, and I do mean > >THEY, collective, plural, class. He embodies everything they hold to be > >self-evident, those natural virtues -- venality, vindictiveness, > >viciousness. > > There will be a rump faction that continues to support Bush, but the > rest have probably already made the decision that Bush does more harm > than good for them. I think that $200 million is not a particularly > large sum for the ruling class. > -- > Yoshie > > * Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/> > * Greens for Nader: <http://greensfornader.net/> > * Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> > * Calendars of Events in Columbus: > <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html>, > <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> > * Student International Forum: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/> > * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> > * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> > * Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>
